Tax burn: Many unhappy returns for Joe Average
That's a real protest, unlike the "tea parties" being promoted by Fox News — see Jon Stewart's "Tempest in a Tea Party" last night — to try to give the GOP some sort of basic issue to rebuild the party other than feeding Rush Limbaugh to the troops.
Adding up the past failure to pay taxes by such Obama Administration appointees as Kathleen Sibelius, would-have-been appointees like Tom Daschle, and, of all people, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the head of the IRS employees' union says her members are "upset and angry." The Chicago Tribune explains:
In an interview Tuesday, [union chief Colleen] Kelley said the Geithner case underlines the need for a change of the rules governing IRS employees.
"My issue is not that I want Geithner or anyone else punished," Kelley said. "I want there to be a re-examination of the law that holds IRS employees to a separate standard: one in which a simple mistake can cost them their jobs with no right of appeal."
More on why they're seething:
